Ars Technica has a well written piece by Glenn Fleishman about Erik Tews’ (pictured) work on cracking WPA. Up until now WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) has been the only alternative to the severely flawed Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Note: it now takes only seconds to break into a WEP secured wireless network. Fortunately, there [...]

Recently, MIT’s Technology Review published their list of the ten emerging technologies that they feel are most likely to change the way we live. Sadly, the ‘Hotdoll’ and the ‘USB Stripper’ were left off the list, but the list does include ‘Modeling Surprise’, ‘Probabilistic Chips’, ‘NanoRadios’, ‘Wireless Power’, ‘Atomic Magnetometers’, ‘Offline Web Applications’, ‘Graphene [...]

For many reasons, I have never been a big fan of General Motors. With the exception of the Corvette and the short lived EV1 electric vehicle, their products have never inspired much enthusiasm from me. Moreover, I am turned off by the company’s shameless use of patriotic rhetoric to market their vehicles. Many of their [...]

In the world of telecom behemoths like Verizon (market cap 100 billion) and AT&T (217 billion), Clearwire is a midget (1.8 billion). Chances are you have never heard of the company. But you will. And the competitors had better look over their shoulder. Here is why. Clearwire Corporation builds and operates wireless broadband networks in [...]